Accounting can be a boring task, especially when it comes to doing your budget spreadsheets, paying bills, and taking a look at all your "vast" income! If you haven't already incorporated budget worksheets and keeping up with your finances into weekend tasks, I'd have to suggest using CoinKeeper HD to get you started on this sensible and very important task (although it's not the same as a day at the beach!)

CoinKeeper HD makes practical, easy-to-understand charts with accompanying numbers to help make your work enjoyable and understandable! Take a look at some of the features included in this budget and finance, money tracking iPad app:

- Instant or daily server backup to safely secure your data
- Synchronization between multiple devices with the same personal profile for shared budgeting
- One-click history of transactions
- View history of transactions by taping on any income source, account or expense category
- Set transactions’ frequency and add notes
- Income, accounts, expenses and goals on one screen
- Income source panel (green) shows where your money comes from and how much
- Accounts panel (red) displays where you store your money, cash or non-cash
- Expense categories panel (black) lets you track what you spend your money on with a customizable budget for each category
- Financial goals panel (yellow) shows what you are saving for and how much
- Easily rearrange icons, and customize category names and budgets to your needs

The pie and bar charts are infinitely helpful in providing quick and current info on your financial situation. The little gold buttons depicting new transactions are easily be dragged on your screen as you need them. The foresight gained by being able to see how much you are spending and on what particular item over any specified time period is quite invaluable! The clever and unique design of this iPad app makes boring spreadsheets a thing of the past. Colorful, clear design, loads of statistics and manipulations on your numbers plus the ability to sync to your iPhone makes this app extremely valuable.

I would have to say that making income, accounts, expenses and goals visible on one page though is the icing on the cake. It is so helpful to view all the important factors in one place. No more excuses needed for accounting tasks thanks to CoinKeeper HD! If you had the choice of an innovative, mobile and feature laden app versus a spreadsheet on your desktop, which would you choose? Case closed, no answer needed here!

COOL CONCLUSION: CoinKeeper HD: personal finance app for budget is a remarkably clever app that provides you with the current and future statistics you need to make your personal bookkeeping enjoyable, understandable and simply accurate.

It may seem a bit late, but I am just now jumping on the Instagram bandwagon. It's different to Pinterest with no web platform or organization strategies, but there are many Instagram apps that make this "culture" highly appealing. One such app is InstaCollage Pro - Pic Frame & Pic Caption for Instagram FREE.

Once I began to explore Instagram with this app, I suddenly understood the charm of these old style pics! Unfortunately, this is yet another roadblock to my getting to sleep early at night as I am far too entranced with the collage making, stickers, frames and captions that are all part of this Instagram collage and frame photo app. Features of the easy-to-use InstaCollage app which dresses up your photos immeasurably are as follows:

It's easy as cheese to create a stunning pic with InstaCollage. Launch your app, scroll along through the picture frames at the bottom of your display to get a color and design you like, then pick the one with the correct number of slots for your pic. Now tap the slots to add your pics by camera or from photo album, add FX from an array of 18, add colored text to on your photo (loads of fonts, colors, sizes) and put cute stickers on too, if they match the theme of your pics. Ta Da! I have simplified the process as I promise there are tons of cool tweaks you can enjoy with your frame, photo, sticker and caption sizes. Finally, you can share to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, save to your camera roll or send by email.

No bragging on my part, but I have become fast at this procedure and can turn out several unique pics at a time (providing I have some good photo material, of course)! In any event, I recommend you find your friends on Instagram (we are cooliphoneapps1), start creating some amazing collage stories, and add yet another enjoyable hobby to your growing list of artistic mobile apps!

COOL CONCLUSION: With InstaCollage, create gorgeous, color-tinted photos complete with snazzy captions, stickers and lovely frames in Instagram style that make a story out of your imaginative collage.

September 27, 2012

Developer Quote: "One of the most popular Forex trading platforms, MetaTrader 4, is now available on your iPhone or iPad absolutely free of charge. Trade currencies with any of 600+ servers of brokerage firms that use the MetaTrader 4 trading platform."

Any kind of brokerage or trading means being handy to a phone and/or computer 24/7. As prices shift and change for better or worse, it's imperative to be able to buy or sell. With MetaTrader 4 on your iPhone or iPad, it's so easy to take care of your business no matter where you are in the world. Take charge of and manage your currency accounts with this helpful app as you use it to see what's going on in the financial markets, trade currencies with 600+ brokerage firm servers, and even have the powerful engine perform technical analyses with the aid of 30 market analysis indicators. There are several different facets to this iPhone foreign currency exchange trading app, so let's have a look:

TRADING
- Real-time quotes of financial instruments
- Full set of trade orders, including pending orders
- Trade directly from the chart
- More than 600 servers of brokerage firms available
- Support of all types of execution modes
- Complete trading history

CONVENIENCE
- User friendly interface
- Trade levels and volumes on the chart
- Offline mode (symbol prices and charts)
- Minimum traffic
- Push notifications from the desktop terminal and MQL5.community services, viewing received notifications
- Many added languages: Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Japanese - to name just a few

On launching MetaTrader 4, choose between options to Login with existing account, or Open demo account. If you feel like a trial run, use the Demo mode as I did. Once this is accomplished, and you have selected your broker, the screen will display Quotes, Chart, Trade, History and Settings underneath, while you have the option for Simple or Advanced views above. The Simple screen is just that with each country's currency price while the Advanced tab shows fluctuations every second along with the expected spread. A clean screen with large font makes the currencies easy to read. Tap the + button to insert another FOREX currency.

Let's discuss the Quotes screen first. Tap any currency on either View to be able to Trade, Chart or see Details of that particular currency. Details include: Spread, Digits, Stops level, Pendings GTC, Contract Size, Profit Calculation. If you are visual and want to utilize the powerful features of this app, tap Chart to see a list of helpful indicators which may be scrolled to see their continuous performance. The graphs are extremely helpful in pinpointing the currency's performance. Tap Trade and you will be able to adjust the wheel for Instant Execution, Buy Limit, Sell Limit and the same for Stop Limit. It's that easy to conduct a trade on the spot!

Moving on to the Charts page, with 3 chart types including Bars, Japanese Candlesticks and Lines, you will be able to get a clear picture of those currencies you have selected. This is made even more eye-pleasing when you tweak color and line width of the indicators. Technical indicators that are used include Accelerator Oscillator, Accumulation/Distribution, Bears Power, Bollinger Bands, Bulls Power, Momentum, Money Flow Index, and that's just naming some of the list of 30 provided!

On the 3rd button, or Trade screen of MetaTrader 4, find the concise information you need such as Profit, Balance, Equity, Margin, Free Margin and Margin Level %. Perhaps the most important data will be your History, however. Here you can view your activities by Day, Week, Month or even include a Custom configuration. Find your Balance, along with Profit, Credit Deposit and Withdrawal numbers. Settings include the ability to add broker Accounts, tweak your Charts, view any Messages and keep track of your activities in a daily Journal. The details are piled on in this conveniently simple, but powerful currency trading app. MetaTrader 4 is an able assistant in watching the market for you every second and taking care of your trades.

COOL CONCLUSION: Conduct your foreign exchange trading with ease and confidence when you use MetaTrader 4, the FOREX app loaded with numerous trade details, indicators, charts and graphs designed to help you trade smartly!

Taking videos requires a steady hand and some quick thinking. You need to be prepared to stop recording before wasted footage gets inserted so that your work doesn't become a boring (rather than memorable) story. With Pincam - Pin Your Moment thankfully you will never have to face the scathing remarks of friends and family when they see your video replays! You are easily able to trim out the floor, ceiling, sky, back of someone's head and all that unnecessary stuff to make a perfect video. Some features you will enjoy on this video record and edit memory making iPhone app are shown below:

Pincam is a necessary app if you are serious about taking long-lasting family or recreational videos. Personally speaking, between my shaky hands, getting distracted by things moving on the ground (pets and kids), phonecalls, what have you, excellent editing options are a requirement. The good news is no matter what you trim, Pincam can recover the time period before your trim selection! This is a no-fail video recording and editing system!

~ Rise To Fame - The RPG for iPad
(Games)Developer Quote: Rise to Fame brings you the rich experience of a music RPG to enjoy on the go.

~ AppZapp Pro
(Productivity)Developer Quote: AppZapp will instantly inform you about price drops by push or eMail. Now with App-Community! See what Apps your friends have and share.

~ Pencil FX
(Games)Developer Quote: With PencilFX, anyone can become a sketch artist. Create high quality pencil sketch drawings from your own videos or photographs instantly with the state of the art pencil effect.

Is your job one of those where you are situated in an office on a daily basis? Or do you have to travel to different locations on occasion? Perhaps, you combine a bit of both, or are even a High School or College student. In any case, your work needs to be mobile and accessible at all times. Portable (as in PDF) is the key word here! PDF Reader - iPad Edition, by Kdan Mobile, affords you this convenience with loads of features in a smoothly polished and highly comprehensive package.

With this app you can, in a snap, create PDF's, view documents & PDF's, mark-up your documents as needed for presentations and then share your finished product to a multitude of storage hosts. Let me say it's a pleasure to tote around a lightweight iPad (as opposed to a laptop) that contains files, necessary notes, and all the editing capabilities needed to produce a first rate document. Use this choice app to view many document formats residing on your desktop such as: MS Office, iWork, ePub and even comics.

Markup PDFs and Engage with Valuable Information in Your Hands:
- Highlight, underline, and strikeout text directly with you finger
- Add sticky notes to jot down comments, questions, or feedback
- Stamp Tool— a simple way to indicate the status of a file
- Type on PDFs – Typewriter text boxes supported
- Keep or print annotations along with PDFs as a reference for later use

When you open PDF Reader, just tap PDF documents to begin your work. Take a look at Settings to adjust several items such as Viewer Mode, Enable iCoud, Air Play, WiFi Password, etc. just the way you'd like. Get started by accessing a button from your lower left screen. Choices include: (1) WiFi Sharing, Browser Download, Import Images, Cloud Storage or Download Tracker, (2) Specify a name for your new File Folder, (3) Take a pic of a new photo or document, or look at an old one, and (4) View thorough instructions on each feature.

What's neat about PDF Reader are the many choices available under each function. As a File Manager, PDF Reader can air print, create PDF forms, move and copy files to other folders, create new (including private) folders, import images from your photo library and even convert an image to a PDF file. The PDF scanner function allows you to adjust scanned images and send them via email, has several scanner settings, lets you preview the doc as well as save to the photo library.

The Annotation feature, however, is my favorite. Perhaps because it provides so many choices in making your presentation unique and innovative which can only impress the boss! Here you may add and remove bookmarks, add/edit/delete sticky notes, freehand draw, highlight, underline and strikeout text in your PDF files. These are the sort of things I would normally be doing on my desk top! In this new version, using File Transfer you can now sync files with iCloud for iOS 5 and later, as well as download files by entering existing URLs.

Do not let the many capabilities of this productive PDF reader daunt you. You can always access excellent instructions with graphic examples from any screen. Plus, complete directions are available online with the iPad User Guide. PDF Reader - iPad Edition takes your productivity to a whole new level with thoughtfulness embedded in each option, a clean interface to keep your screen wide open for creative thought, and endless help at your fingertips. Professionals, students, and even homemakers, would be one step ahead of the rest to carry around this loaded utility app at all times.

COOL CONCLUSION: Simply amazing technology is the core of PDF Reader - iPad Edition with simplicity the key in viewing, creating, annotating, sharing and storing documents. This versatile PDF reader and scanner is perfect for anyone who needs accessibility and portability of documents with fine editing features.

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